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We,The People, are not happy
My name is Marsha. I am a journalist working for a daily newspaper on Planet Marsh. Every year, the newspaper sends me to explore a new planet. This year, it is Earth. They gave me a picture of the Earth taken by “Explorer”. At some point in 2026, the distance between this Explorer and Earth will be the distance that light can travel in one day. That may sound like a lot, but compared with the distance between galaxies, we are neighbors.
I am not easily surprised. I have seen planets populated by Siamese people, where the same body hosts two souls. I have also seen the opposite: one soul inhabiting two bodies. When those two bodies find each other, they say that they were lucky to find their ‘sister soul’. Planet Earth is simple. They have one soul for one body. That makes my job much easier. One body for every soul and every soul in its body!That gives humans two channels of communication with the outside world. I called them the body’s channel and the soul’s channel.
The body’s channel comes with sense organs such as eyes to see, ears to hear, a nose to smell and plenty of fingers to touch. It helps. Human sense organs may be limited, but that’s all they have. They could not survive very long without them. In the soul’s domain, everything has a weight, a color, a shape. You can take it to a lab and do experiments. It is the domain of predilection of science. They could have made a religion out of their sense organs. “They are a gift of God. There is no salvation out of sense organs.” The problem is that they are not perfect. Far from it.
Their soul channel is different. It is a disaster. It is where you find thinking, harmony, love, consciousness, feelings. It is in their soul’s domain that you find what is most important in their lives. The problem is that it is very difficult to find because their souls don’t have sense organs. How can they become conscious of someone else’s feelings when they don’t have a sense organ devoted to feelings? Their lives would be completely transformed if they had a sense organ making them conscious of the love people generate. That would change who gets his name in the dictionary.
Solitary confinement
You only have to watch lovers to understand the predicament of humans on Earth.
Lovers are trying desperately to escape the body’s domain and get reunited in their soul’s domain. They want to replace talking with a song. Their souls want to use flowers when their body only knows bread. They want their eyes to be a window on each other’s souls. They make love with their souls instead of their bodies. They are full of wishful thinking. They want to live in the stars when their sense organs keep bringing them back to Earth.
The sun prevents them from seeing the stars
How can you be yourself when you cannot use your soul’s channel? How can you feel part of the universe when the sun is preventing you from seeing the stars? People live in society like eggs in their egg packing, neatly arranged but without real contact and dreaming of an omelet. What they are missing is a third eye that would allow them to ‘see’ each other’s soul like they can see each other’s body. What they are missing is a set of organs in their soul like they have sense organs in their body.
On planet Earth, the souls are in solitary confinement.
If you ask a human to describe himself, he will start with his physical appearance. His soul will come later, after his car. Ask them to describe their country, and they will start with their GDP. They may not mention at all their level of happiness. Most of the words in their vocabulary come from objects in the material world. Ask them a question about feelings, and they will switch to examples where those feelings appeared in their material world. They are not comfortable talking about what is happening in their souls.
They don’t even have a sense organ for “life”. I learned that from a cat. There are more than 600 million cats on Earth. Mine was black, eyes closed, not moving, on a bench in a public park. An old man said that it was dead. That was a mistake. A little girl started crying and yelling, “My cat! My Minou! My little Minou!” She took the cat in her arms, and the cat was resuscitated. Her mother said, “How can you do such jokes? This is horrible! Stay away from my daughter! Get out of here!” Everybody around them agreed that the old man was a monster. He could only leave. I was told later that black cats are bad luck. More than 600 million cats could explain a lot of bad luck – including this one. This is how I realized that they don’t have a sense organ for life. They are not directly conscious of ‘life’. They rely on the consequences. Most of the animals around them are alive and keep moving. They concluded that there is life where there is movement. A cat that does not move and does not make noise must be dead. When their astronomers look for life on other planets, they look for water because their own bodies are made of 80% water. I asked if they consider their rivers to be alive. There is a lot of movement and a lot of water in their rivers. Their answer was a categorical ‘NO’. Rivers may be necessary to sustain life, but something else is missing. They could not explain what was missing.
There is a possibility that their soul’s sense organs are like the rest of their souls. They don’t have weight, color and shape. We can’t see them because they don’t belong to the material world. They could have a third eye that I could not see. That’s possible but what would be the purpose of sense organs that they cannot use?
General view vs details
Sooner or later my editor-in-chief, back home, is going to ask me to write an article about ‘life’ on Earth. What can I say about their lives when they don’t know themselves the purpose of their own life? I already know his answer. It will be what he already told me a few years ago.
“Marsha, last summer you took 4 weeks’ vacation to go sailing with your husband and two other couples. No TV. No newspapers. The way you dressed was under the influence of your sunburns instead of the latest fashion. Your life was based on the waves instead of solid ground. You discovered many small details about your friend’s lives that you did not need to know. You said that when you stepped out of the sailboat, you had a feeling of freedom. You like your friends, but you need some distance. Four weeks of closeness were too much.
When you came back to work, there was a pile of 30 newspapers on your desk that we kept for you. The question was: Do you have to read those 30 newspapers before you can start working again? We were watching you. You kept those 30 newspapers on your desk for a few days, and they disappeared. You would have liked a one-page summary but not a stack of details.
We need both the details and a general view. That’s what they say about the trees and the forest. We need the details to build the general view. The problem is that we get buried in the details and lose the general view we need.
The journalist exploring a new planet does the opposite. He can look at the situation from the outside, while everyone around him looks at it from the inside. He is looking for the details that will reveal the general view. Your responsibility is to help our readers gain access to a general view of life on another planet. We don’t need the details any more than you needed the 30 newspapers on your desk or the details of your friends' lives on the sailboat. We want you to look at life on Earth from a distance, not through a magnifier. Just make sure nobody comes after you with a magnifier to reveal some mistake.
You complain that you don’t know the details. My answer is: That’s why I selected you. I need somebody who can identify the motivation behind what they see. Remember the saying: “If you want small improvements, look for specialists inside the organization. If you need a revolution, look outside.”
There is also something special about Earth. In the past, you have been exploring planets as they are today, as they have always been, and as they will always be. No changes! At least, nothing noticeable between today and a few thousand years ago. The Earth is different. Something important happened in the last 200 years. We want to know what is going on. What are the changes? What is their cause? What are the consequences? Could something similar happen somewhere else? You can see why I selected you for planet Earth. Don’t get lost in the details.
Many people think that there is only one God. On different planets they give him different names. You can assume that God does not mind if they give him different names. What we need from you is a general view!”
An Alien looking at planet Earth through his telescope would see 8 billion individuals moving around like ants. He may be wondering what the cause of all this animation could be. We need food and shelter. That does not explain everything. A couple of centuries ago, approximately 85% of the population was comprised of farmers. Today, they represent less than 5% of the population. We should be free from basic needs 80% of the time. What keeps us so busy?
We have long-term and short-term motivations.
The human body is high maintenance. It must be fed three times a day. It must be kept at the right temperature at all times. It doesn’t smell good unless we keep washing it regularly. We don’t know what happens during our 8 hours of sleep. Even if you spend one hour a day keeping your body in working order, you should have more than 14 hours of leisure per day. Something is missing somewhere.
Behind the short-term motivation of the individual lies the long-term motivation of a society. Civilizations appear and fade away like flowers bloom and wither. We are familiar with the Egyptian civilization, followed by the Greek and Roman cultures. More recently, in the 15th century, Portugal was the leader of Europe. In the 16th century, Spain was the leading power, followed by the Netherlands, France, and England. All those countries seemed to follow the same process. The individuals who lived at the time were not conscious that they served the same purpose. We are not separate individuals. We are a flow of people like a river running across the centuries. We serve a purpose, consciously or not. Something is missing in our understanding of life. Sooner or later, we stop what we are doing and ask ourselves:” What is the purpose of all this? What am I doing here? Is it worth it?” Earth may not be hell, but it is not a paradise either. It looks more like purgatory.
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To answer the question of “What are we doing on Earth?”, some people use religion. Others decided that they will be happy when they have enough money or become famous. We are all looking for love. The problem is that we don’t know where to look. Looking for love cannot be a daily activity.
How is motivation implemented in Nature?
Let’s take a labyrinth.
At first, we sent water to fill the labyrinth. It filled all the dead ends and found its way to the exit. Water is driven by gravity.
The next step is to replace the water with slime mold. It is this gluey thing spreading on dead trees in the forest. It has no head and no brain. However, it is used to improve our computers because it can solve problems faster than we can. The slime mold will fill all the dead ends of the labyrinth. It will also reach the exit. After reaching its goal, the slime mold will remove what is filling the dead ends and could be put to better use elsewhere. Slime mold is motivated by the search for food.
Now, let’s place humans at the entrance of the labyrinth. They are not driven by gravity. They are not looking for food. They lack real motivation. They may not find the exit. Motivation could be the key to success. It lacks shape, color, or weight. You will not find it in the material world. The key to success is in our souls.
Love could be the leading motivation in our lives. Unfortunately, we don’t have the necessary sense organs to guide our search. All we know is that we will not find it in money or in the material world. The answer will come from our soul and our motivation.
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14 From Helena to Robert Check the NDE
What was the reaction of your friends when you told them about love? Keep in mind that your friends are in a dark cave, and you don’t even know, yourself, how you got out of that cave.
Fortunately, there is a way out of our predicament. Our consciousness may be limited, but it can be amplified. We have been working on that problem for a long time already. To love people is to be conscious of them. It is more than being mindful of their presence. It is being conscious of their state of mind. You find this between a mother and her baby. She knows why the baby is crying. No need for words and reasoning. She is conscious of what needs to be done. Between adults, you may not know the details of their past, but you are conscious of the influence that their past had on their soul.
You can get some idea of what an increased consciousness is like by talking to people who have gone through a near-death experience. Many of them have new abilities that they kept after this experience. The most common one is that they know what people around them are thinking. Be careful of what you are thinking if you go to one of their meetings. (There is one every month in most big cities.) If you see a big nose, try to think, “What beautiful hair”. You are swimming in increased consciousness. They may be aware of something about you that you forgot. Search ‘Near Death Experience’ and you will find hundreds of people of all ages who have surprising stories. Most of the time, it happened during surgery. This is not something I would recommend! We say that they lost consciousness. I would rather say that they were not conscious of their physical body. Do we need a physical body to be conscious? This is not on my list of sense organs.
What happened to both of us is that we became conscious of one another. After a big hug, there is not much more to talk about. This is what could help your friends.
15- From Robert to Helena – Critical mass
Helena, I keep thinking of what transformed our relationship. The only explanation I could find comes from the atomic bomb! No mathematics. I promise!
Take a small sphere of radioactive material. The energy generated varies with the volume of the sphere (4/3π R³). The energy lost varies with the surface area (4πr²). As you increase the size of the sphere, the volume increases faster than the surface area. You reach a point where there is more energy generated than energy lost. You have an explosion. This is called “the critical mass.”
Are you still there? Something similar could happen to people. As long as they are separated, nothing much happens. It is only when they get together that they can reach a certain “human critical mass”. The problem is that there may not be enough energy between the two of them to reach that point.
The idea is simple but difficult to believe. Look at the people around you. Each one can generate some love, but not enough to elevate himself to another level. Take two of them at random, and most of the time, their total energy is too small to reach the ‘critical mass’.
Let’s see what could be missing in many people. One possibility is that they are still attached to the material world. They cannot detach themselves from their own body. Most people struggle to make the transition from being a separate individual to becoming half of a couple.
Another possibility is a lack of freedom. Love and freedom come together. When I was a teenager, I was saving my money to buy a record player. Thanks to inflation, the price of the record player increased faster than my savings. It was a race I could not win. Soon after I abandoned any hope, a neighbor bought himself a new record player and gave me the old one. It seemed to me that renouncing reaching a goal in a specific way opens the possibility that it can be reached another way. By detaching myself from using my savings, I introduced freedom into the system. That opened new possibilities.
The general idea is that many people are still prisoners in Plato’s cave. The more knowledge they acquire in the material world, the more they become prisoners of that knowledge. It is more difficult for a surgeon to change professions than it is for a blue-collar worker.
Before you dismiss my critical mass as a crazy idea, let me tell you how it can also be found in human history. The homo sapiens have been on Planet Earth for more than 300,000 years. How come nothing much has happened until the last two centuries? How come the steam engine, the planes, GPS, the computers, and AI did not appear 100 000 years ago? The answer could be that humans were dispersed on the surface of the Earth. There was too much distance between them. The invention of agriculture allowed people to move to cities. Over the past 200 years, the population of cities has continued to increase. A computer is composed of millions of simple ideas contributed by millions of different people. The computer made the internet possible, which further enhanced communication between individuals. More and more brains are becoming increasingly interconnected. That should lead to human beings achieving their critical mass and a higher level of consciousness.
Helena, I predict that more and more people will find their puberty of the soul together.
I would go even further. We will become conscious that Homo sapiens is the seventh stage of human evolution. It is not a question of selecting one race or one religion. Dividing the world’s population into countries fighting one another does not make sense. Either the seventh attempt of Homo sapiens will succeed, or they will disappear from the Earth’s surface like the dinosaurs.
Instead of fighting one another, we’d better unite and look for a way to get out of Plato’s cave. The love between two human beings is pointing in the right direction.